Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

Escape before it’s too late.